Indoor Track: Charlie Thomas Invitational

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Meet: Charlie Thomas Invitational
Date: February 6-7
Time: Day 1 - 2:30 Field Events / 5:10 Track Events
Location: Fasken Indoor Track - College Station, Texas
Streaming: ESPN +
Other Teams Competing: Arizona State, Houston, Rice, and others

Live Results: https://flashresults.com/2026_Meets/Indoor/02-06_CharlieThomas/index.htm


Meet Preview
Back home and it's February. It's time to get this season rolling. Hit some PR's, establish some big marks, and narrow our goals. Indoor season comes at you extremely fast. As of now there are only two more regular season meets before conference and nationals. It's time to compete!

We have a great home meet in store this weekend. It's a two day meet that also includes the men's heptathlon and women's pentathlon. The multi events are shortened indoors. We'll have Blake Harris competing in the Heptathlon, as well as Adam Averett competing unattached. On the women's side we'll have Sofia Yakushina the reigning NCAA runner up competing in the pentathlon, as well as Mercy Freeman, Rylee Lydon, Bradie Mennegati, as well as Aggie Alum and NCAA Champion Timara Chapman. The heptathlon is split into two days while the pentathlon is one, both will begin on Friday. A few other pros will be competing on both sides.

The first field event on Friday (after the weight throw) will be worth the price of admission. The men's pole vault will feature NCAA Champion Aleksandr Solovev. He hasn't competed yet in 2026 so I'm excited to see how he does. As well as transfer Oleg Ananev along with Aggie Olympian Jacob Wooten.

The meet being split up into two days provides two shortened action packed days. Friday we'll only have the 200, 5000, and 400 along with a few field events and the multis. Saturday will have the 60, 60 hurdles, mile, 800, 3000, and 4x400.

On Friday, the first race will be a loaded women's 200. It'll feature two of our unattached athletes who only have outdoor eligibility Jasmine Montgomery and Adrianna Tatum, along with Aggies Camryn Dickson, Aysha Shaheed, Anya Jackson, and Leah Burr. An important race will be the men's 400, after having off last weekend, we got to run some fast times to reclaim our spots on the rankings. We'll have Auhmad Robinson, Erick Hemphill III, Kimar Farquharson, Demarco Escobar, Musa Isah, Iliya Dryaba, and Jakup Szarapo. I'm also excited to see how the men's long unfolds Friday with Micah Larry, Khybah Dawson, and Jedidiah Udunna.

On Saturday I'm excited for our 800 and mile runs. Sophia Bendet and Elise Smoot will run the 800 along with Tharushi Karunarathna. The men's side will have Peter Narumbe along with Reece Sharman-Newell, Stefan Dodoo, and Grant Ashby. The mile should be fun too, we'll see long distance stars Joyce Kemboi and Megan Roberts drop down to run the mile. Youssef Asslouj will run it on the men's side along with Michael Moiben who ran a 13:50 5000, as well as Carter Gordy and Diego Heredia. We'll also see 5 Aggie women in the 60 along with Micah Larry!

It should be a great weekend of track! An important weekend for our Aggies to show out in front of the 12th Man! I'd recommend everyone heading over to Fasken to see some elite completion. I love spring sports because you can walk back and forth from Fasken to the softball complex for the Aggies Classic and on Saturday you can watch Aggie basketball right after the track meet ends! I'll be here all weekend with updates so tune in, join in on the fun, and if you're out there cheer hard for the Aggies and enjoy yourself! Gig'em!
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taylorswift13_ said:

Meet: Charlie Thomas Invitational
Date: February 6-7
Time: Day 1 - 2:30 Field Events / 5:10 Track Events
Location: Fasken Indoor Track - College Station, Texas
Streaming: ESPN +
Other Teams Competing: Arizona State, Houston, Rice, and others

Live Results: https://flashresults.com/2026_Meets/Indoor/02-06_CharlieThomas/index.htm


Meet Preview
Back home and it's February. It's time to get this season rolling. Hit some PR's, establish some big marks, and narrow our goals. Indoor season comes at you extremely fast. As of now there are only two more regular season meets before conference and nationals. It's time to compete!

We have a great home meet in store this weekend. It's a two day meet that also includes the men's heptathlon and women's pentathlon. The multi events are shortened indoors. We'll have Blake Harris competing in the Heptathlon, as well as Adam Averett competing unattached. On the women's side we'll have Sofia Yakushina the reigning NCAA runner up competing in the pentathlon, as well as Mercy Freeman, Rylee Lydon, Bradie Mennegati, as well as Aggie Alum and NCAA Champion Timara Chapman. The heptathlon is split into two days while the pentathlon is one, both will begin on Friday. A few other pros will be competing on both sides.

The first field event on Friday (after the weight throw) will be worth the price of admission. The men's pole vault will feature NCAA Champion Aleksandr Solovev. He hasn't competed yet in 2026 so I'm excited to see how he does. As well as transfer Oleg Ananev along with Aggie Olympian Jacob Wooten.

The meet being split up into two days provides two shortened action packed days. Friday we'll only have the 200, 5000, and 400 along with a few field events and the multis. Saturday will have the 60, 60 hurdles, mile, 800, 3000, and 4x400.

On Friday, the first race will be a loaded women's 200. It'll feature two of our unattached athletes who only have outdoor eligibility Jasmine Montgomery and Adrianna Tatum, along with Aggies Camryn Dickson, Aysha Shaheed, Anya Jackson, and Leah Burr. An important race will be the men's 400, after having off last weekend, we got to run some fast times to reclaim our spots on the rankings. We'll have Auhmad Robinson, Erick Hemphill III, Kimar Farquharson, Demarco Escobar, Musa Isah, Iliya Dryaba, and Jakup Szarapo. I'm also excited to see how the men's long unfolds Friday with Micah Larry, Khybah Dawson, and Jedidiah Udunna.

On Saturday I'm excited for our 800 and mile runs. Sophia Bendet and Elise Smoot will run the 800 along with Tharushi Karunarathna. The men's side will have Peter Narumbe along with Reece Sharman-Newell, Stefan Dodoo, and Grant Ashby. The mile should be fun too, we'll see long distance stars Joyce Kemboi and Megan Roberts drop down to run the mile. Youssef Asslouj will run it on the men's side along with Michael Moiben who ran a 13:50 5000, as well as Carter Gordy and Diego Heredia. We'll also see 5 Aggie women in the 60 along with Micah Larry!

It should be a great weekend of track! An important weekend for our Aggies to show out in front of the 12th Man! I'd recommend everyone heading over to Fasken to see some elite completion. I love spring sports because you can walk back and forth from Fasken to the softball complex for the Aggies Classic and on Saturday you can watch Aggie basketball right after the track meet ends! I'll be here all weekend with updates so tune in, join in on the fun, and if you're out there cheer hard for the Aggies and enjoy yourself! Gig'em!



You seem like the expert, so can you explain why Roberts and Kemboi are racing the Mile ? Are we not trying to get good times in the 3000 or 5000 ?
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Could be a factor of things, one being the competition. There won't really be any competition for those two in longer races so it'll be tough for them to get a fast time by themselves for most of the race. The main thing could be wear and tear. It'll be hard to run on an indoor track that fast in that race in back to back weekends, might hurt them in the long run. Also they could probably be choosing races that fit into their training schedule. Maybe since we're about 3 weeks from conference, they're lowering the mileage and increasing the speed workouts so they could be using this meet more as speed work training. I'm hoping New Mexico provides more competition for the endurance runners, or I can absolutely see them heading to another venue next weekend although nothing has been announced. Or they head somewhere the week before conference. But conference, even as it's more suited to have a tactical race, the sec usually has a couple people fighting for time, so that should help.
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Also it's extremely difficult to get a top 16 or 20 time in the distance races. Every year the event seems to get faster and faster. Right now both would need to PR by about 20 seconds or more to be around the bubble. Which could be possible if they keep improving! Distance races, PR's come in big improvements
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To pile on, as others have alluded to… it's weird how we can't attract any other top teams to come race in College Station. We'll get an occasional good team, but it's really weird how with our facilities, indoor and outdoor, how competitive our team is, the great weather we have outdoors, it's just strange how most meets are just some Texas schools like Baylor, TCU, Houston, Rice and some smaller Texas schools.

It must be a little tricky to fly a large amount commercially into College Station, but still it baffles me. Indoors Arkansas and Tech always seem to attract huge schools. Outdoors many other schools bring in fellow SEC schools, schools out west. But not us. Maybe this year it changes, but it's really weird how we can't host bigger competition for us to compete with and to give us fans a better sporting event.
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But we're champions so whatever works works so I'll be quiet
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Woah, Blake Harris runs a 60 meter PB in his first event and is off to a great start in the Heptathlon! 6.83!
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On the women's side Sofia Yakushina goes 8.50 in the 60 hurdles, .17 off her best.

Mercy Freeman and Bradie Mennegati PR and Rylee Lydon ties her PR
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In his 2nd event Blake Harris is just off his PB going 23'8.75 in the long jump! 2/7 done and looking great so far!
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Sofia only goes 5'7 in the high jump, not her best still a solid jump for a pentathlon. Let's hope she can make it up in the next 3 events.
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Bradie Menegatti no heights in the high jump, she opened at 5'6 even though her best is 5'8
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Oh my goodness Blake Harris PR'S ON ALL HIS ATTEMPTS IN THE SHOT PUT! Improves his PB from 41'8 to 43'7.75

WHAT A DAY THROUGH 3 EVENTS
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Drives me crazy. Get a safety clearance at least.
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This man had to miss all of outdoors due to a season ending injury. Look at him now!
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Right I wonder if it was her decision or a coaches. But crazy to go that close to your season's best! Lesson learned for the freshman
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Next up for Blake is the high jump, his best is 6'7 but he's usually around the 6'4-6'5 range, should be interesting to see how he fares there
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Sofia well under her PB for shot put as well
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Blake Harris good so far, going for 6'4 next
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Will only get 6'2.75, had room for error after his hot start! What a great day 1! He sitting at 3213. His day 1 best is 3150. So he's on pace for a big PR!

His best in the event is 5800, on that day 2 we went 7.85 - 60 Hurdles
15'1 - Pole Vault
2:43 - 1000
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Aleksandr Solovev over 17'4 and 17'10 on first attempts
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Leo Bowen finishes at 16'10, Oleg Ananev doesn't record a height
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Up next would 18'4.5
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taylorswift13_ said:

Up next would 18'4.5
gets over 18'4 but misses at 18'8.

That's tied for 10th in the ncaa
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1 Timara CHAPMAN 4503
3 Sofia IAKUSHINA 4336
8 Mercy FREEMAN 3787
13 Rylee LYDON 3606
19 Bradie MENEGATTI 2981
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I'll take 18-4 for his first meet of the spring, plus he won it.
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CAMRYN DICKSON OH MY GOODNESS

22.62
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Solid start
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Should be enough for Sofia to stay top 16, she'll do better at conference
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Lawson Jacobs - 20.68 in the 200!! What a talent we have!
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Blake Holland 20.98
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Auhmad Robinson goes 45.58, number 4 in the ncaa this year
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